Information Systems

1 ? 3: You work for a small store that
sells automobile tires. You see an opportunity to expand the business by
offering more products and services to customers, including offering products
and service via the Internet. The store does not have any computer applications
supporting business functions. Use this scenario for the first
three questions but make sure you organize your answer to respond to
each of the questions.

1. Discuss your recommendation for e-business systems and Enterprise
Business Systems needed to support the business growth?

2. Explain the activities that should be performed in order to justify
your recommendations?

3. What challenges do you see in implementing the recommended
technology/application software?

4. Discuss and explain the privacy and security concerns
AND associated security technologies necessary to protect the following
information system.

A
health care organization is planning to implement an automated patient care
system that will enable the health care organization to electronically share
information with their patients. They would like to provide patients with
access to medical records, submit consent forms for treatment, and enable
electronic payment of bills using the internet.

5.
Although ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) Systems are a great concept,
implementation of such systems have a high rate of failure and often after such
systems are installed the results may not be as desired. Discuss the reasons
for such high failure rates, suggest ways to avoid such failures and if the
system is not operating up to expectations, should it be replaced?

EACH QUESTION SHOULD BE ROUGHLY 2 PAGES LONG.